A place to share photographs and pictures. Feel free to post your own, but please read the rules first (see below), and note that we are not a catch-all for general images (of screenshots, comics, etc.)

No screenshots or pictures of screens. No pictures with added/superimposed text.This includes image macros, comics, maps, infographics, and most diagrams. Text (e.g. a URL) serving to credit the original author is exempt.

No porn or gore.NSFW content must be tagged.

No personal information.This includes anything hosted on Facebook's servers, as they can be traced to the original account holder. Stalking & harassment will not be tolerated.No missing-persons requests!

Submissions must link directly to a specific image file or to a website with minimal ads.We do not allow blog hosting of images ("blogspam"), but links to albums on image hosting websites are okay. URL shorteners are prohibited. URLs in image or album descriptions are prohibited.

We enforce a standard of common decency and civility here. Please be respectful to others. Personal attacks, bigotry, fighting words, otherwise inappropriate behavior or content, comments that insult or demean a specific user or group of users will be removed. Regular or egregious violations will result in a ban.

If your submission appears to be filtered, but definitely meets the above rules, please send us a message with a link to the comments section of your post (not a direct link to the image). Don't delete it as that just makes the filter hate you!

If you come across any rule violations please report the submission or message the mods and one of us will remove it!

Serial reposters may be filtered. False claims of ownership will result in a ban.

Professional photographer or artist? Read these guidelines for linking to your own site and obtaining 'Verified' user flair.

Links

If your post doesn't meet the above rules, consider submitting it on one of these other subreddits:

Yeah sure, Legos are fun and all, but they really are some of the worst dream crushing soulless companies there are. Is there any reason this should cost $240 USD?

Then there is the imagination robbing custom pieces (epitomized in this set). A single regular block can be so much more than those custom pieces will ever be. It is like the engineers lost their imagination on how to make a boat out of blocks. They have basically reduced Lego to little more than snap together toy models.

So, maybe megabloks are bad, but Legos are brand-name full-price bad. Whatever. That's why I haven't bought a set in a bajillion years.

Well, it does have 4287 pieces and does appear to be completely awesome... so, I'm going to say maybe it's worth $240. I do agree though, Lego can be very expensive, and some of their smaller sets don't really seem to be worth the price.

I don't think you realize what it takes to make Legos. I concur in the regard that the custom pieces suck, but the Lego kits are notoriously expensive to create. You have to pay engineers to come up with the kit, then instructions/art/packaging/marekting. The pieces are made with a very delicate process, and they're all made in one or two locations if I recall correctly. Probably the biggest kicker is that every single piece of lego is hand-counted before being shipped. This is why you'll usually find you'll have a couple extra of the small pieces.

Yes, Lego is expensive. Yes, Lego is worth it. Or at least was worth it. If they had the same complexity, I'd probably still buy them. Nothing catches my attention anymore.

In the packaging lines the pieces are distributed: they are dumped into the machine, which separates them one by one, then counts them using optical sensors, and placed in a generic small box. I watched in amazement, seeing how the pieces fell into these small boxes on a very small conveyor. At every step, one, two, three or whatever amount of pieces will fall into the box, according to the instructions of the set in production.

Along the way, high precision scales measure the weight of the box. The computers know exactly how much a box has to weigh at any stage, indicating that the correct number and kind of pieces are inside. If there's a variation of a few micro-grams, the alarm jumps and an operator grabs the box, sorts the pieces, and puts the box back into production.

Once the box is complete, the contents are dropped into the plastic wrapping machine, which makes a bag with the pieces inside. The box are then dropped inside another box, and passed into another production line, where more bags would be added until

In the packaging lines the pieces are distributed: they are dumped into the machine, which separates them one by one, then counts them using optical sensors, and placed in a generic small box. I watched in amazement, seeing how the pieces fell into these small boxes on a very small conveyor. At every step, one, two, three or whatever amount of pieces will fall into the box, according to the instructions of the set in production.

Well that's odd! I assure you your post wasn't showing up when I posted mine. :-) I feel like the guy who came into the meeting late and everyone is staring at him. Didn't mean to steal your thunder. Upvotes to you my good man.

Say what you will about Megabloks but I will never forget my surprise when my grandparents got me a set and they all fit with my LEGO and had those 1x1 cylinders that were glow in the dark! Best catapult ammo ever.

I can attest to this, but the worst part about gobots is that they usually looked retarded as robots because they never had those "transformer" heads, and instead usually used the top portion of the car as the head and the windshield as the eyes. They looked really stupid in robot form IMO, but the car form were actually really well done, and highly detailed, almost like the die cast scale model cars you can buy now.

PARENTS: Do not buy Roseart Markers for your kids ever! They may be cheaper, but they are NOT washable. They say they are, but trust me on this one, they will not come off anything. Crayolas wash off easily off everything. So so so worth the extra $ so your kids don't end up ruining everything you own.

I am babysitting a kid who has Roseart crayons. I told my mom how much I hated coloring with them and how I was glad she only bought me Crayola. She said, and I quote, "I did that because I love you. Roseart is stupid." Then she gave me a big bucket of my Crayola crayons from when I was little (THEY WERE STILL LONG AND SHARP!! I had soo many of them...) and I colored in my coloring book. I am 20.

Nah if it was the glue they would have fallen. My guess is they use some kind of filler that doesn't melt. Then the wax melts and separates from the crayon, and that's what you see. The pigment might be added to the filler instead of the wax, so the wax is just seen as that nasty yellow color in every case.

50 cents = 2 packages of ramen which in my household was a common lunch or dinner. Sometimes the luxury of having food outweighed crayons. Not trying to be snarky, just trying to say that for some people 50 cents might not be a lot, but to others it is.

I grew up in a 3-bedroom duplex with four brothers and sisters, living on a short-haul trucker's salary. I was on free lunches at school and wore hand-me-downs and thrift store clothes all my life. We had an entire six-month stretch where my dad was on disability pay with a shattered tibia and we ate nothing but rice and beans (which, by the way, is cheaper per portion and much more nutritious than ramen, which is packed with sodium and essentially devoid of any value except calories).

My mom still managed to buy us Crayolas. She waited until they went on sale at the beginning of the school year and stocked up. We might not have had the 96-pack, but we still got decent crayons and never sacrificed a meal for it.

You had rice and beans? We came home from the textile mill where me and my brother worked as door mats leading from the restroom to the main floor, and our father would beat us about the head and neck with a pointed stick and then, if we were lucky, he would tire and drop the stick. Once we stomped on the stick enough, it would be tender and we could eat the mildly poisonous bark. And we were glad to have it!

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

Right.... I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed. Eat a lump of cold poison. Work twenty nine hours a day down at mill and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing a Hallelujah.

It wasn't supposed to be a science experiement... It was supposed to be an easy way for me to put art on the wall. I had the RoseArt crayons left over from student teaching and I thought, "If RoseArt will be good for anything, they will be good for ruining!" How wrong I was.

I remember back in elementary school we were told to write to a company and comment on one of their products. Usually kids sent to Hershey and got free candy. I wrote to Roseart and told them that their crayons were severely disappointing. That they were so far below the quality of Crayola that my dog wouldn't eat them when she would eat an entire box of Crayola and shit rainbows. We had to turn in a copy to the teacher. I got detention and Roseart never did write back.

What a fantastic science experiment for young kids. Notice how the Crayons that reflect the shorter wavelengths of light (green, blue, indigo, violet) are more melted than the ones that reflect the longer wavelengths (red, orange, yellow)?

I have a 7 year old daughter. We struggle financially sometimes and at one point I did buy her a box of Roseart crayons. They were just horrible. I have always been very artsy, I love drawing, painting, etc...and I still love coloring with my daughter like I did when I was a kid. My daughter has a creative side to her as well. She actually stopped coloring one day because she doesn't like the Roseart crayons either. The color barely shows up on the paper.

I think I like the crayons you get at restaurants with the kids menus better...even though you only get 4 colors.

Hold on. Your explanation sounds plausible, but the image you linked to is just a visual key for a chart.

Infrared light has no corresponding visible light colors because we cannot see infrared light. How much infrared light is absorbed or reflected by those crayons cannot be known unless we took an infrared photo and shifted the colors into our color spectrum.

How do you know that the purple crayons are absorbing more infrared light compared to the red crayons?

Hmmmm... Thanks for calling me out on that! One college course on optics does not an expert make!

Turns out the differences of wavelengths of visible light is fairly different (Linky) I believe the shorter wavelength means more energy is being absorbed. While the difference is only a few billionths of a meter, the relatively small heat emissivity of wax (linky) would cause it to have a compounding effect.

Yes. It means that the Roseart crayons are very hard to actually color with --something that anyone who has used Roseart crayons knows very well. They don't transfer onto the page like Crayola crayons do.

This is interesting because for our wedding two weeks ago my wife made crayon space invaders using an ice mold. She started with crayola and they melted together and made a disgusting color. She tried roseart and they melted slower and came out much better. They were a hit at the space wedding. http://i.imgur.com/xNTPv.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/7UPH9.jpg

Crayola likely uses wax with a lower melting temp., resulting in more "release" onto paper. Consequently, Crayolas are probably less durable, but I'd prefer them for their color saturation and for being less likely to ruin the paper.